Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hallo ! > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:27:50PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 10:14:00PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > > > > Should the boot-floppies script download those disks or do we just > > > > copy them into the debian mirror with a readme.txt explaining > > > > their origin? > > > > To have a stable and comparable setup (i.e. to have a "single" > > > common source regardless what Stefan Reinauer might do in the > > > future) I would suppose to include them into debian, not simply > > > download them at buid time. We should contact him though and inform > > > him to be fair. > > > > I don't see the point in this. It would blow up the build time > > tremendously, by several hours, and we would end up with exactly the > > same images that we could download. Should we need to do special > > tweaks for Debian, we can still grab the source; it's GPL after all. > > Well I am not a Debian developer so maybe this might give me some > problems understanding the details but why is the build time prolonged > if the milo disk is simply copied into debian once instead of > downloaded every time when building boot floppies ?
OK, I misunderstood, I thought you wanted to import the sources. > In the first case the milo disk is available to the build process > imediately in the latter case a network/computer problem inbetween > the build system and the webside could delay the build indefinitely. Hmm, it has to be downloaded in any case, be it from CVS or from http://suse. Also binaries in CVS suck. And you have to download extra stuff anyway... Falk
